63 Cal. 2d 30 - Wilson v. Bittick’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
91 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 91 later decisions — most recently February 1989 · most notably 68 Cal. App. 3d 372 - Kahn v. Kahn (1977), 91 Cal. App. 3d 942 - Munoz v. Purdy (1979)
91 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on 19 Cal. 2d 807 - Bernhard v. Bank of America National Trust & Saving Association · Stationers Corp. v. Dun & Bradstreet, Inc. · Austin v. Massachusetts Bonding & Insurance · Frost v. Witter · 16 Cal. 2d 169 - Gonsalves v. Bank of America National Trust & Savings Ass'n
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 91 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As pointed out in Stationers Corp. v. Dun & Bradstreet, Inc., supra, 62 Cal.2d 412, 417 [3], 'The aim of the procedure is to discover, through the media of affidavits, whether the parties possess evidence requiring the weighing procedures of a trial.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.